Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate, the eighth largest mortgage company in the United States, recently received the designation of having more top loan officers in the country than any other company by Mortgage Executive Magazine. The magazine has also named Guaranteed Rate the No. 1 mortgage company in America.

Guaranteed Rate has 30 loan officers included on the publication’s Top 200 list of highest-producing mortgage originators, including Michael Dunsky of Medway, who is based in Franklin and serves the greater Framingham area. Dunsky closed 303 loans and originated more than $85.7 million in 2012 – a 63 percent increase in funding over 2011.

On the list of the Top 200 mortgage originators in America, loan officers from Guaranteed Rate took three of the top five spots.

***

Ball Consulting Group LLC recently announced that Greg Turner of Framingham, an award-winning and veteran journalist, has joined its team as account director.

Turner brings to the firm 16 years of newspaper experience, including 13 years as an editor.

Turner served as deputy business editor at the Boston Herald for the past five years.

Based in Newton, Ball Consulting Group is a strategic communications firm that specializes in health care as well as crisis communications and planning across all sectors.

Prior to the Boston Herald, Turner held the position of business editor with the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham. He came to the MetroWest Daily News from the Concord Journal where he was editor.

Turner started his professional journalism career as a reporter with Community Newspaper Co.

Turner has won several New England Press Association awards for excellence. While he was deputy business editor with the Boston Herald, the Herald’s business section won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award. Turner co-edited the book, "As Told: The Journals of Lewis and Clark."

Turner holds a bachelor of science degree in journalism, with a minor in Spanish, from Boston University.

Riel will be responsible for partnering with IMPACT’s owners to ensure its members are being challenged and working at optimal levels.

Prior to this position, Riel worked as a track and field coach at Natick High School, Holliston High School, Huntsville High School in Alabama and at the University of Alabama. From 2009 to 2011, Riel worked as a personal trainer at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., NorthRidge Fitness in Tuscaloosa and at the Urban Active Fitness Club in Nashville, Tenn.

In 2008, Riel graduated from Boston College with a B.A. degree in English and received the Athletic Directors Award for Academic Excellence and ACC academic honors. In 2011, she graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa with a masters degree in sport management.